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In Bengaluru Urban district, all schools and colleges except Medical and ParaMedical will remain closed with effect from January 06 except class 10, 11 and 12. Schools in other districts will continue to function.
With Covid-19 cases surging, the Karnataka government on Tuesday decided to impose weekend curfew and extend night curfew until January 19. Curfew will be in place between 10 pm and 5 am across the state.In Bengaluru Urban district, all schools and colleges, except medical and paramedical institutions, will remain closed from January 6, except for students in classes 10, 11 and 12. Schools in other districts will continue to function, it was announced.
The meeting was held in view of the sudden jump in number of Covid-19 cases in the state. Karnataka logged 2,479 cases on Tuesday and four fatalities, PTI reported. Since January 1, the city has been logging over 1,000 cases daily.
The order issued by the government stated, “All offices will function five days a week from Monday to Friday during this period. The Government Secretariat will run with officials below the rank of Under Secretary at 50 percent working strength. There shall be weekend curfew from Friday 10 pm to Monday 5 am in the State. In Bengaluru Urban district, all schools and colleges except Medical and ParaMedical will remain closed with effect from 06-01-2022 except class 10th, 11th and 12th.”It stated, “Pubs/clubs/restaurants/bars/hotels/eating places in hotels etc, will function with 50 percent seating capacity…and entry to such places will be restricted to fully vaccinated persons.” The order also stated that cinema halls/multiplexes/theatres/auditoriums and similar places will operate with 50 percent seating capacity with entry restricted to fully vaccinated people.
Mumbai: BMC makes rapid RT-PCR test mandatory for international passengers arriving at city airport
Passengers who test negative will have to home quarantine for seven days while symptomatic passengers will be admitted at Seven Hills Hospital.
Amid rising concern of new COVID-19 variant Omicron, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in an order that all international passengers will have to undergo rapid RT-PCR tests at the airport.Passengers who test positive for rapid RT-PCR tests have to wait at the airport for a routine RT-PCR test. If a passenger tests negative, then she or he will be asked to remain in home quarantined for next seven days.In a revised order, the civic body said a building can be sealed if there are at least 10 Covid patients in the occupied flats. The change was brought in considering the difficulty in sealing many small buildings with fewer floors or flats.Mumbai on Tuesday registered 10,606 new Covid-19 cases, crossing the 10,000 mark for the first time since April 7, 2021, when it had recorded 10,428 cases. The highest number of cases recorded in the city in a single day was on April 4, 2021, when 11,163 cases were registered.
Assembly Elections: PM Modi to address rally in Punjab amid Covid curbs
Assembly Elections 2022 Live Updates: Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand will be held between February to March, 2022.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be visiting Punjab after a gap of two years, will address a rally in Ferozepur Wednesday with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming that it will be the biggest ever such event in the state with an expected crowd of more than three lakh people. On Tuesday, the Punjab government clamped night curfew and shut educational institutions, however, no restrictions were announced for political rallies in the poll-bound state.
During his visit, Modi will lay the foundation stones of development projects worth over Rs 42,750 crore, including the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway, a PGI satellite centre in Ferozepur and two medical colleges.
Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi will also hold a public rally at Bathinda in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission will hold a virtual meeting with top officials and representatives of political parties from Manipur to stock of poll preparedness. On Tuesday, Modi had visited the poll-bound state, where he said that the “double-engine government model” of the BJP ruling both the Centre and states succeeded in bringing “Delhi – the Government of India – to the doorstep of the Northeast” region.
Goa positivity rate, 6 more Omicron cases confirmed
Health minister Vishwajit Rane said late on Tuesday that six more cases of the Omicron variant were confirmed in Goa. This makes the confirmed cases of the Omicron variant in Goa 11 so far.“Six more samples tested positive for #Omicron in the state of Goa as confirmed by NIV Pune.
All six are travellers from the UK and are asymptomatic,” Rane said in a social media post. “This is a more realistic picture because we have right denominator with so many tests.Yesterday it was 23 percent because we had less testing on Sunday and only those people who are symptomatic went for testing.Now we are going to start testing everybody who comes to our district hospital, sub-district hospitals for whatever reason. We are doing contact-tracing of all the positives,” Almeida said.“We were very troubled by yesterday’s positivity of 23 percent but the denominator was very small. On Sunday, people who were sick went to get tested but very few tests were happening at our Primary Health Centres (PHC) because they were closed,” said Almeida.
Deficit overcome, a lead building, India stay on track at Wanderers
The second ball of the second day of the Wanderers Test from Mohammed Shami leaped at Dean Elgar, who fended it safely to point. The last ball of the day from Keshav Maharaj spun and bounced at Cheteshwar
Pujara, who edged it softly past slip for his seventh four and took India’s lead to 58 with eight wickets standing .What ensued in between those two deliveries was not only utterly absorbing cricket, but also the build-up of several narratives that are hurtling towards one grand denouement at the Bullring. The headline story of the day was, of course, how Shardul Thakur transformed his golden arm into a goldmine extracting one precious wicket after another. Before Thakur ripped through the South African batting line-up, the morning had been about the craft and threat of Shami and Jasprit Bumrah pitted against the grit of Elgar and the elegant promise of Keegan Petersen.
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‘Mother of orphans’ Sindhutai Sapkal passes away at 73, PM Modi expresses grief
Social worker Sindhutai Sapkal, fondly known as ‘mother of orphans’, passed away following a heart attack aged 73 on Tuesday. She’s credited with setting up of numerous institutes for the welfare of orphans, and has raised over 1,050 orphan children.
The social worker is credited with setting up of numerous institutes for the welfare of orphans, and has raised over 1,050 orphan children. She had received the Padma Shri Award in 2021 for her work.
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